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Apj Abdul Kalam
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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This article is about the former President of India. For the freedom fighter, see Abul Kalam Azad. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
BR | | 11th President of India | In office
25 July 2002 – 24 July 2007 | Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Manmohan Singh | Vice President | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | Preceded by | K. R. Narayanan | Succeeded by | Pratibha Patil | | Born | 15 October 1931 (age 79)[1]
Rameshwaram, Madras Presidency, British India | Alma mater | Madras Institute of Technology | Profession | Aerospace engineering |
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம்; born 15 October 1931 inRameshwaram, Madras Presidency, British India), usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was the 11th President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007.[2] He was elected during the tenure of the National Democratic Alliance (India) coalition government, under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.[3] During his term as President, he was popularly known as the People's President.[4][5]
Before his term as India's president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.[6] In India he is highly respected as a scientistand as an engineer.
Kalam played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.[7] He is the chancellor of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (Thiruvananthapuram), a professor at Anna University (Chennai), a visiting professor at JSS University in Mysore, and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India. Contents [hide] * 1 Political views * 2 Aerospace engineer



References: * ^ Bidwai, Praful (23 June 2002). "‘Missile Man’ as India’s President". http://original.antiwar.com. Retrieved 27 September 2009. * ^ "Kalam was real people 's President: President 's bodyguards". Hindustan Times. 2007-07-24. Retrieved 2009-03-27. * ^ Perappadan, Bindu Shajan (2007-04-14). "The people 's President does it again". The Hindu. Retrieved 2009-03-27. * ^ Pruthi, R. K. (2005). "Ch. 4. Missile Man of India". President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Anmol Publication. pp. 61–76. ISBN 978-8126113446. * ^ Sen, Amartya (2003). "India and the Bomb". In M. V. Ramana and C. Rammanohar Reddy. Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream. Sangam Book. pp. 167–188. ISBN 978-8125024774.

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